Anti-Alias
Whether you flatten the world into binaries, or allow for nuance, complexity, and blurry edges.
Alison Wood Brooks and Letting Go of the Goal to Persuade
Anti-Alias is about resisting the urge to flatten a situation into a simple binary — I'm right, you're wrong. Alison Wood Brooks is arguing that the persuasion instinct is essentially Anti-Alias turned off: it reduces conflict to a contest with a winner and a loser. Turning Anti-Alias on means holding space for the idea that the other person's perspective has validity, that the truth might be blurry, and that understanding comes before judgment.